Let's jam with JAMMR

[Ferryman]

Zoom might not work for jamming, but would still be ok for a drink in our virtual Songcrafters bar.

Now that sounds like fun! My son is conducting online "socials" (aka drinking sessions) with his hockey club. Seems to be working for them.

[Flash Harry]

I jam all the time using REAPER and reaNimjams (it is a plug in under FX in REAPER DAW) it is live jamming and works damn good.  Spend hours jamming with folks from all over the place.  You will need and audio input device to plug your gear into so as to be heard.  Some real pros show up.

I use Reaper too, and I have seen the reNimjams but not had a look into using it - I may do that this weekend.

I tried installing a using Jammr - it blue screened my PC, it was very glitchy when it ran, I couldn't hear any others, I couldn't create new jams. I have removed it again.

I'm using a number of on-line meeting tools at the moment, Zoom seems to be the best I have used, but I think that latency will stop it from being a successful jam tool.

[Mike Huntingford]

I jam all the time using REAPER and reaNimjams (it is a plug in under FX in REAPER DAW) it is live jamming and works damn good.  Spend hours jamming with folks from all over the place.  You will need and audio input device to plug your gear into so as to be heard.  Some real pros show up.

I use Reaper too, and I have seen the reNimjams but not had a look into using it - I may do that this weekend.

I tried installing a using Jammr - it blue screened my PC, it was very glitchy when it ran, I couldn't hear any others, I couldn't create new jams. I have removed it again.

I'm using a number of on-line meeting tools at the moment, Zoom seems to be the best I have used, but I think that latency will stop it from being a successful jam tool.

Let me know if you need help setting up a session and I can walk you through it.... its not as simple as I would like it to be.

Mike

[64Guitars]

JackTrip


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj6Ij1Oxe1s

https://www.jacktrip.org/index.html

https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/jacktrip/

https://jackaudio.org/

Tutorial playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn2xUupww3E&list=PLOwImupx7XmMcUlDusRKLX6qGAKym28To


I like this because it uses free open-source software (for Linux, Mac or Windows) and you don't have to sign up with any website in order to use the software. Instead, one of the collaborators agrees to run JackTrip in hub server mode and all the other collaborators connect to the hub server. And you can simultaneously run Zoom, for example, so that everyone can see each other. But you'd mute the audio in Zoom so that all of the audio goes through JackTrip for low latency. It's a bit complicated to set up for the person acting as the server because they have to deal with port forwarding, but it's fairly simple for everyone else to connect as clients.